Geomje reincarnated as a swordsmith (199)
“It’s been a while since I saw you, Captain Audrey.”
“Ugh.”
Heather, who made a strangled sound in response to Leonard’s answer, trembled and swallowed a small cough. Even though he was a member of the 7th Knights, it was rare for him to encounter or interact with superiors from other knights.
There was nothing more to say about the Green Dragon Knights, which were already famous for being closed-minded. Heather’s reaction to suddenly meeting a leader was in many ways common sense.
The problem was that Leonard, who rather than being agitated was happy with himself, was too unreasonable.
“I can’t say I was fine, but I had a good time.”
Audrey praised those words with a subtle smile.
“Hehe, I heard it from Wade. Not only was it not enough to stop two apostles from escaping, but it also greatly exposed their weakness, right? “You’re causing a stir everywhere.”
At the level of laymen, it seemed that only his activities were being passed around without anyone knowing, but at the general manager level, Leonard was already a celebrity.
Before Leonard had time to be humbled by her assessment, Audrey unwrapped the glaive she was carrying on her back and placed it on the shelf. It was an attitude of not caring whether the lathe owner allowed it or not.
Naturally, Garneau, with his eyes wide open, became furious.
“No, you damn bastard!” The blades are all crushed! “What kind of bullshit are you talking about? The adamantium forged using the 8-stage method crumbles like a boiled radish!”
“What is the repair period?”
“what?! repair!? It’s faster to melt it down and make it from scratch!”
“I see,” said Audrey, who nodded her head.
“Please bill as always. “It seems that there is not enough time for the operation to be implemented, so it would be better if we hurry up as much as possible.”
“It’s been a week! “Anything more is impossible!”
“Okay, if that’s the case.”
The negotiation that was not a negotiation between the two people ended like that.
She asked with an expression of interest as she looked from Garno to Leonard, or rather, to Heather.
“I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but is that Leonard’s motive?”
“yes? Ah, yes! That’s right! “My name is Heather!”
“You are a [Wolf Knight] who is popular among the Green Dragon Knights. “Your skills are not appropriate for your age, and it’s a shame that we couldn’t bring you from the Black Dragon Knights.”
“Gwa, gwagwa, gwachan!”
Heather’s face turned red as she was praised by the knight commander whom all the Cardenas blood family admired.
Audrey added that there was nothing to be so humble about.
“Even if it was reached through a reckless attempt, we have reached an area where it is difficult to find a precedent. If you refine it throughout your life, it may become established as one of your family’s schools. “Be proud of your own qualities and strength.”
“yes! thank you!”
When Heather, whose eyes were even red with tears in her eyes from the serious yet friendly encouragement, stepped back, Audrey looked at Leonard again and said,
“Wade’s son, as well as the child named Belita, seem to have opened their eyes. “It is said that jockey trainees like you are generally blessed with good fortune.”
“It’s just that each person’s efforts have been rewarded.”
“It’s true that you may have had some influence. Well, I didn’t come here to discuss things like Gongchisa, so I guess I’ll leave it at that.”
Audrey started talking, saying, “It’s not a big deal to the point of getting to the point.”
“I heard it from Uruka. He became a special officer?”
“Yes, it looks like I will be in charge of a delayed battle against the King of Witchcraft.”
“The habit of only looking for dangerous places is not getting better. Well, I guess I had no choice since there was no one else suitable for it.”
As if she was satisfied with Leonard’s calm attitude, she took out something she had brought in her arms.
It was a bracelet-shaped artifact imbued with unusual magical power.
“Activate it when two or more magic kings approach, or when you face a crisis where survival cannot be guaranteed.”
Before Leonard could ask what this was, Audrey’s explanation followed a beat later.
“Among those wearing the same artifact, it is imprinted with a magic that can summon one person who responds to the signal to the surroundings. “It is an item given to each leader, but there is one spare, so I am handing it to you.”
“It’s a consumable item. Are there any limits to the range and number of activations?”
“All commander-level officers who participated in this operation are within the effective range. The limit to the number of activations is three. That is why it should only be used in crisis situations.”
If this artifact could be used freely any number of times, as soon as the Witch King appeared somewhere on the front line, four leader-level leaders would rush in and tear it to pieces in a matter of seconds.
Even if you tear it to pieces and kill it, it will be revived soon since its existence is based on the World Tree, but it would not have been a loss since you could chip away at even a little of its accumulated power.
Leonard wore the artifact on his wrist, fumbled with the circuit that emits the signal a few times, and then recovered.
“Then I won’t wake up. “It’s been a while since I’ve been to the barrier train, so I think I need to take a look around.”
As Audrey stood up like that, Leonard also remembered that there was nothing left to do and looked at Garneau’s back.
As if he had forgotten their existence, Garno’s figure, just staring into the furnace, was as motionless as a statue.
“Ah, let’s go now. Elder Garneau?”
Garneau shouted without even looking back at those words.
“do it yourself! Those who came to visit me next time, don’t be late!”
Leaving behind Garno, who showed his temper until the very end, the three of them split into two and left Zehaire’s forge.
The heat swirling inside the blacksmith shop was so strong that I felt out of breath as soon as I came outside. Non-sleeping in cold weather is ultimately an ability to adapt to heat and cold, and does not mean becoming sensually unresponsive.
Glancing at Heather, who seemed much more comfortable than inside, Leonard organized the situation in his head.
‘The operation is progressing faster than I expected.’
I thought they would be more cautious since it was an operation to organize one front, but it seems that the upper echelons of the empire judged that any variables that might appear in the meantime were more threatening.
I don’t know about the Blue Dragon Knights, who had nothing to do due to non-aggression against the Elyos, but if Audrey and Wade were gone for too long, an incident could occur that Damien could not handle alone.
It was a matter of choice and concentration.
‘… ‘The shortest time is a week, the longest is about 10 days.’
Was it because of the experience and intuition accumulated from a previous life, or was it because of the dragon’s blood, which became stronger as the level increased?
Leonard’s prediction was almost exactly correct.
It was exactly 7 days since I met Audrey at Zehire’s blacksmith shop.
Finally, the barrier train slowly began to move forward.
* * *
Coo coo coo coo coo coo???!!
The speed at which the barrier train itself was moving could not be said to be that fast. No, it was more appropriate to say that it was slow like a turtle.
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Nevertheless, the force was enormous.
Was the great flood that swept over half of the continent like this in ancient times, almost at the beginning of time? As the huge fortress, which was 50 meters high, advanced and shook the ground with its weight, a thunderous noise erupted as if a thunderstorm had struck the clear sky.
The wheel marks are carved several meters deep, leaving their mark as if a train had passed.
‘It’s unprecedented just for it to stay in place, but for it to even move. ‘It wouldn’t be surprising if the Zhuge Dynasty’s martial artists broke my fan and went into seclusion.’
Leonard clicked his tongue unconsciously and looked at the horizon.
Even though it had advanced for several hours, the location of the barrier train had not changed much, but the noise and vibrations that shook the heavens and earth were reverberating, bringing in legions of corpses.
Since the depth was still shallow, the majority were small things like goblins and kobolds, but even those small things were not something to ignore.
Queeeeeee!!
A goblin, running faster than a leopard, leapt from the surface, soaring as high as 10 meters and colliding with the barrier. It was a level 3 monster, a physical ability that seemed to be at the level of True Demon Lord.
If it were a normal fortress, I might have jumped over the wall.
However, it was far short of height to jump over the barrier train.
puck.
The goblin, which absorbed all the kinetic energy into its body, explodes like a rotten tomato, and the porridge-like remains flow down under the wheels and are soon crushed.
So did the rest.
Hundreds, or even thousands, if you count all those dying outside of Leonard’s field of vision, were turning into minced meat as they crashed into the train. Although it was neither alive nor dead, it was a very meaningless attack.
“… No, it’s probably at a level that can’t even be called an offensive.”
As Leonard muttered that, he looked down at the endless corpses filling up to the horizon.
Unlike Nastrond’s ghost army, they have little immortality and are not afraid of those who cannot regenerate if their bodies are completely destroyed. If they had clashed with these guys before an all-out war against the Spriggans, the elites of the 7th Knights would have suffered a lot of attrition.
It was not for nothing that the barrier train was said to be a key tool on this front. In order to fight on equal terms with the World Tree Yggdrasil, the environment was too disadvantageous without a train.
“and! “This is the first time I’ve come inside without hesitation!”
Heather, who had entered the area as a Green Dragon Knight, must have been surprised and looked around with her eyes wide open.
No matter how powerful the barrier train is, if several demigod-level entities appear, it will suffer massive damage. Therefore, entering Spriggan territory was impossible unless the power of the World Tree was reduced or a majority of leader-level players were present.
The number of people who have entered the deepest part of Yggdrasil, where the main body is located, was literally only in the single digits.
“Heather, where does the Spriggan appear?”
Heather reacted to Leonard’s words, thought for a moment, and then,
“If it’s the area where spriggans appear, we’ll have to go two more days, right? Well, for medium to large monsters, just pushing them away is not enough, so artillery fire is often used.”
“what? shelling?”
“huh.”
At the same time as she answered naturally, a fairly large monster was seen running from a distance.
It was an ogre.
Despite the rotting state of every part of his body, he still had the same strength he had when he was alive, and it seemed unusual for him to run, jumping tens of meters in one step. Like goblins, if you can use the strength of a Holy Demon Lord, you can barely climb even 50 meters.
however.
Touquaaang?!
A Titan placed throughout the barrier train loudly spewed fire from its port.
Even though there was still quite a distance left, the Titan’s bombardment hit him accurately. The corpse ogre’s upper body explodes like a rag, and its lower body, unable to control its momentum, collapses and falls to the ground.
There was no sign of his upper body regenerating, but it was disgusting that he was trying to get up again even though only his lower body remained.
Unfortunately, it never made a comeback.
Crack.
This was because the one who was crushed and crushed by the giant wheels of the barrier train was completely crushed and could never move again even within the influence of Yggdrasil.
Heather, who laughed at the sight, explained.
“It would be possible to block it with the magic circle installed on the wall, but I don’t have enough magic power to use it against spriggans, so there’s no need to deal with monsters like that, right? “We destroy and push back with Titans equipped with cannons or fixed artillery placed throughout the barrier.”
“indeed.”
Leonard was inwardly impressed, evaluating the effectiveness of the tactic.
‘Are we actively using unmanned weapons and artillery to minimize the consumption of manpower and resources that are difficult to replenish? Since this is a front line where Wickline cannot properly join, they may be trying to fill the large-scale magic void with gunpowder weapons.’
Gunpowder weapons are powerful.
When dealing with strong energy and anti-magic magic, there are quite a few people who forget its power, but if you were to be hit directly by a thunderbolt or a thunderbolt, even a fire-level expert would inevitably suffer damage.
It is said that the government kept an eye on spears and bows, but compared to gunpowder weapons, they were like new feet. All of the clans that fearlessly made and used fire bombs were subjugated by the imperial army. Sacheondangga also uses gunpowder, but the fact that it does not touch the fire bomb proves its severity.
So, what if gunpowder weapons were properly used in an empire like Arcadia, with its economic power, resources, and level of technology?
Quaaaang! Quang! Kwaaaaang! Quaaaaaaaaa!
Leonard was now witnessing the terrifying sight.
“… … “I guess we won’t have anything to do for a while.”
“yes?”
Before I knew it, most of the corpse monsters had changed to intermediate level, but the speed at which the barrier train was moving did not change at all.
The corpse soldiers created by Yggdrasil are not just corpses that move, but also contain distorted natural mana, unlike when they were alive, so their combat ability increases significantly. It was one of the things that differentiated it from the ghost of Nastrond.
but.
Quang!
The head of one troll, burning with dark green flames, bursts open, and before its body begins to stumble, three more shells explode and it turns into pieces of flesh.
The power of the barrier train, which had been continuously strengthened and tested over several centuries, was beyond the ability of small children.
Even if you deal with Transcendence, monsters that can last for several minutes will not be able to last even for a moment and will be swept away. If one leg isn’t enough, two kicks, if two kicks aren’t enough, three shots. After being hit dozens of times like this, even the highest A-rank monsters quickly turned into rags.
‘It’s literally a skirmish.’
Humanity and Spriggan were not revealing their hand cards, as if they were trying to warm up before a full-fledged war broke out.
However, the positions of the two forces were diametrically opposed.
Attacker and defender.
As a defender whose options decrease as each minute and second passes, he is forced into a situation where he has to reveal his cards first.
* * *
just as expected.
“??Enemies! “Sound the emergency alarm!”
“The Magic King has appeared!”
Two days had passed since the barrier train began its advance, when a lava giant of an eye-watering size appeared beyond the horizon. The first demigod-level entity encountered during this operation, a mutant of the Spirit King, of which there are only four.
It was Vulcanus, the magic king of melting.
fantasy,
